The White House has accused the Chinese AI company Moonshot AI of deploying NVIDIA chips in Thailand, a move that could prompt the U.S. to expand its AI export controls.

Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has accused the Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of purchasing NVIDIA GB300 processors and deploying them in Thailand, potentially to train AI models in a way that circumvents U.S. export controls on AI chips to China.This allegation has not yet been independently verified, but it could prompt the U.S. government to expand its regulatory scope to cover overseas data centers, cloud service providers, and remote users of NVIDIA hardware, transforming the issue of sales to China into a broader global compliance challenge. NVIDIA The company has already excluded its Chinese data center computing business from its revenue forecasts, but stricter remote access controls could affect its customers outside of China. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Remote Access Security Act, which aims to grant the federal government the authority to regulate foreign remote access to U.S.-controlled technology.